The Temporary Path Station at The World Trade Center
It doesnt sound nice for the folks making that 1st commute back into the city on the path by way of ground zero. It sound totally rigorous. Ima gonna give it a shot tomally.
I rode yesterday. The train loops around the lowest level of the construction site. Everything's open to view--the bathtub, trailers, temporary catwalks. They did a nice job on the station. Very open and raw a la Pompidou Centre. The only thing cheesy are the giant printed slogans on translucent stretched grillcloth (used as exterior walls), for example: "If you can live in New York, you can live anywhere. --Arthur C. Clarke"
In one article, they mentioned travertine marble floors that still remaine from the original construction. It was used throughout the WTC site for wall treatments etc. In the late 90's they refurbed the interiors and grout filled the little travertine creveties. The old stuff really collected city grime. Ill check for traces.
I didn't see any trace of the old station. They did recreate the row of long escalators coming up from platform level, but that was my only "nostalgic" moment. Everything else looked new (and better).
Once upon a time I had a short, intense and vivid vision whose setting was the mall, stations and escalators below the WTC. That vision was a fleeting invitation to a deeper underground. Little did I know that the physical place was also ephemeral.
The emotional experience
"In stages, Port Authority workers switched on the array of escalators in the bank known as "PATH Hill." By 7:30 a.m., all eight were moving, groaning and creaking as they delivered growing numbers of commuters to the concourse, where they were greeted by the beeping of construction vehicles at the site."
In another article they mention the floors :
"About 50 feet of travertine flooring and six shallow travertine steps from the old World Trade Center concourse can still be found in the vestibule between the station and the E train platform."
Keeping them was "the right thing to do," said Robert I. Davidson, chief architect of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who designed the station, working with the engineer Jerrold Dinkels and the Pentagram studio."
In both articles they use the term "path hill" for the escalator bank, a term I'm unfamiliar with.
ok i'm back. OH. MY. GOD. The woman who said she thought she was prepared but wasn't, pinged it. So there's hudson news stand sitting all alone centered on the midlevel landing unscathed like this had all just happened around it. The wall-o-ecalators is right where it belongs. But now, all that was once deeply burried is conspicously open air like they peeled the lid off.
The temporary station is a vision of construction-chic. All the structural materials are confidense building over kill . It comes off great. Before making a quick exit I made the pilgrimage to the f station to see the travertine marbel floor and stairs. Sure nuf, the last crummy bits of the stuff looking like the whole world had just trampled through.
As Mr. Silverman gradually rebuilds his investment, I'm guessing sections of the spacious temporary PATH station will be taken away, a chunk at a time, and converted to leasable square footage.
Too bad, it looks great now.
So what are the stops out of Grove St. Station now? Is it just a WTC stop before Christopher St, or what?
No, two trains stop at Grove. The train to 33rd street, which stops at Christopher (with a connection on the Jersey side to Hoboken) and the WTC train. My commute time to Lower Manhattan is back down to 15 min. (instead of 30).
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- bill 11-22-2003 8:45 pm
It doesnt sound nice for the folks making that 1st commute back into the city on the path by way of ground zero. It sound totally rigorous. Ima gonna give it a shot tomally.
- bill 11-26-2003 3:42 am [add a comment]
I rode yesterday. The train loops around the lowest level of the construction site. Everything's open to view--the bathtub, trailers, temporary catwalks. They did a nice job on the station. Very open and raw a la Pompidou Centre. The only thing cheesy are the giant printed slogans on translucent stretched grillcloth (used as exterior walls), for example: "If you can live in New York, you can live anywhere. --Arthur C. Clarke"
- tom moody 11-26-2003 4:01 am [add a comment]
In one article, they mentioned travertine marble floors that still remaine from the original construction. It was used throughout the WTC site for wall treatments etc. In the late 90's they refurbed the interiors and grout filled the little travertine creveties. The old stuff really collected city grime. Ill check for traces.
- bill 11-26-2003 4:45 am [add a comment]
I didn't see any trace of the old station. They did recreate the row of long escalators coming up from platform level, but that was my only "nostalgic" moment. Everything else looked new (and better).
- tom moody 11-26-2003 6:50 am [add a comment]
Once upon a time I had a short, intense and vivid vision whose setting was the mall, stations and escalators below the WTC. That vision was a fleeting invitation to a deeper underground. Little did I know that the physical place was also ephemeral.
- mark 11-26-2003 10:26 am [add a comment]
The emotional experience
"In stages, Port Authority workers switched on the array of escalators in the bank known as "PATH Hill." By 7:30 a.m., all eight were moving, groaning and creaking as they delivered growing numbers of commuters to the concourse, where they were greeted by the beeping of construction vehicles at the site."
In another article they mention the floors :
"About 50 feet of travertine flooring and six shallow travertine steps from the old World Trade Center concourse can still be found in the vestibule between the station and the E train platform."
Keeping them was "the right thing to do," said Robert I. Davidson, chief architect of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, who designed the station, working with the engineer Jerrold Dinkels and the Pentagram studio."
In both articles they use the term "path hill" for the escalator bank, a term I'm unfamiliar with.
- bill 11-26-2003 6:14 pm [add a comment]
ok i'm back. OH. MY. GOD. The woman who said she thought she was prepared but wasn't, pinged it. So there's hudson news stand sitting all alone centered on the midlevel landing unscathed like this had all just happened around it. The wall-o-ecalators is right where it belongs. But now, all that was once deeply burried is conspicously open air like they peeled the lid off. The temporary station is a vision of construction-chic. All the structural materials are confidense building over kill . It comes off great. Before making a quick exit I made the pilgrimage to the f station to see the travertine marbel floor and stairs. Sure nuf, the last crummy bits of the stuff looking like the whole world had just trampled through.
- bill 11-27-2003 12:14 am [add a comment]
As Mr. Silverman gradually rebuilds his investment, I'm guessing sections of the spacious temporary PATH station will be taken away, a chunk at a time, and converted to leasable square footage.
Too bad, it looks great now.
- tom moody 11-27-2003 2:46 am [add a comment]
So what are the stops out of Grove St. Station now? Is it just a WTC stop before Christopher St, or what?
- jimlouis 11-27-2003 3:19 am [add a comment]
No, two trains stop at Grove. The train to 33rd street, which stops at Christopher (with a connection on the Jersey side to Hoboken) and the WTC train. My commute time to Lower Manhattan is back down to 15 min. (instead of 30).
- tom moody 11-27-2003 3:32 am [add a comment]